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| [1]Knowest thou the time whe the wylde goates bring foorth their young among the stonye rockes? or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to calue |
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| [2]Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth |
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| [3]They lye downe, they calue their young ones, and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine |
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| [4]Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them |
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| [5]Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule |
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| [6]Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling |
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| [7]They force not for the multitude of people in the citie, neither regarde the crying of the driuer |
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| [8]But seeke their pasture about the mountaines, and folowe the greene grasse |
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| [9]Wyll the vnicorne do thee seruice, or abide still by thy cribbe |
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| [10]Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes |
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| [11]Mayst thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour vnto him |
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| [12]Mayst thou beleue him that he wyll bring home thy corne, or carry any thing vnto thy barne |
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| [13]Gauest thou the faire winges vnto the pecockes, or winges and fethers vnto the Estriche |
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| [14]For she leaueth her egges in the earth, and heateth them in the dust |
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| [15]She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste |
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| [16]So harde is she vnto her young ones as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vaine without any feare |
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| [17]And that because God hath taken wysdome from her, & hath not geuen her vnderstanding |
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| [18]When her time is that she fleeth vp on hie, she careth neither for the horse nor the ryder |
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| [19]Hast thou geue the horse his strength, or learned him to ney coragiously |
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| [20]Canst thou make him afrayde as a grashopper? where as the stoute neying that he maketh is fearefull |
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| [21]He breaketh the grounde with the hooffes of his feete, he reioyceth cherefully in his strength, and runneth to meete the harnest men |
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| [22]He layeth aside all feare, his stomacke is not abated, neither starteth he backe for any sworde |
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| [23]Though the quiuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shielde glister |
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| [24]Yet rusheth he in fiercely beating the grounde, he thinketh it not the noyse of the trumpettes |
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| [25]But when the trumpettes make most noyse, he saith, tushe, for he smelleth the battaile a farre of, the noyse of the captaines and the shouting |
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| [26]Commeth it through thy wysdome that the Goshauke flieth toward the south |
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| [27]Doth the Egle mount vp, and make his nest on hye at thy comaundement |
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| [28]He abydeth in stony rockes, and dwelleth vpon the hye toppes of moutaines |
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| [29]From whence he seeketh his praye, and loketh farre about with his eyes |
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| [30]His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where any dead body lyeth, there is he |
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